Digital Story Telling

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Watch video on Digital Cameras, and learned key vocabulary and tips when shooting with a digital camera.

Observe Appropriate Photos
 Using Microsoft Word, find photos oh the web, copy and paste them into a table. Insert, table 2 columns and 6 rows including a header row. in the second column analyze them following the questions:
  1. What do you like?
  2. What caught your attention?
  3. What do you dislike?
  4. Where was the photographer when they took the picture - close far, upside down, and so on
  5. How did they shoot this picture?
  6. What makes this unique?
When finished print and hand in.


Drop Box
 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/iaiusepwrk4uubp/gZeScKZxrj


  • set up an account use however works best
  • you will have access to pictures used as a group, reading materials and other important details will be shared through this box.
  • Use it more in-depth make your own folders so you can add things from home and other areas of your life so that you have access.


Adobe Photoshop Elements
 Learn to short cut keys, and how to edit and change photos to tell unique stories.
  • Be talking and thinking about how the changes you are making to the pictures are changing the pictures story.
  • How do the changes you are making, help make a point in telling a story?
  • Where have you seen this done before and how could you use it tomorrow?
Link to Adobe Elements Pictures.






Window's Movie Maker
 Understand how it import:
  • Pictures
  • Musics
  • Video
  • Use help and read for understanding online

Use features:
  • transitions
  • Pan and Zoom
  • Fade music in and out
  • special effects
Commercial About You
Transitions:
  1. Are they distracting? Do they take away from the picture?
    1. Don't make the transition flashier than the picture or video.
  2. Use Pan and Zoom on pictures
    1. emphasize focus area and make the pictures more movie like. Give it action.

Storyboard
 "Flexible Plan" to get you organized - gather the materials then but the Montage together.

Know your audience - plan to grab and keep their attention.
  • Tells you the order
  • pictures needed and cleaned up - photoshoped
  • music clips
  • voice or talk over, what to record script it
  • video - 10 to 15 seconds worth














Web 2.0 tools
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/
 Explore different tools to help tell a digital story.